Pumping Gas is Expensive
posted in Frenzied Daddy |
I didn’t talk about our weekend vacation at the end of July. We went to Pacific City, over on the beach, with the Momz. Miss K hated the ocean. It was wet and damp; so we went to the Newport Aquarium. And the Tillamook Cheese Factory.
We took two cars, me with the dogs in mine and Ms B with the girls in her car. The trip home was uneventful.
However, I went out the next day and tried to start my car. It wouldn’t go- it’d turn over but not “fire up.” It sat in our driveway from the last weekend of July until this past friday (Yeah, over a month ). Ms B’s parents got their AAA folks to move it to a mechanic.
He says it’s the fuel pump.
This is an excellent example of why we need a bigger reserve fund; the $400 to replace the fuel pump is about twice what I could uncomfortably swing out of our budget. Which is why it sat so long, but now that Miss B is back in school, it’s important again.
Sigh.
